Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1887-04-29
A Blast From Millerstown.


The best thing that appeared in the
Butler papers OF last week was n let
ter from Millerstown to the Herald
Of this place, which we think worth
repripting Ii is as follows:
MILLERsTowN, April is, 1887.
Since the close o. our license court
| have remained quietly listening to
all sides of the question, not intending
to take any further part in the mat
ter for the present But after reading
your criticism of the Butler Wet.
U | respectfully ask space to review
the facts is said criticism as they
truthful y exist to-day
1t is not unknown TO the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union of But
Ter county that the sympathies of the
Herald are not in full accord with the
temperance work, and especially with
the woman's part of that work
have been impressed for several
years with the Herald's idea of
stomach education, instead of purity
of heart and culture of the brain. For
instance: When Fannie B. Kilgore
came before the Courts asking admis-
sion as practitioner, aud was sever
al times refused by Judges learned in
law, the Herald, in commenting on
this applicant, said: 1--WE have no
doubt of Mrs. Kilgore's ability to
practice law, but she had better write
cook book" and | find the cook
book idea prevailing to large degree
whenever we meet opposition in this
temperance work, as conducted by
women.
The Butler Union have resolved
not to go before Judge Hazen again.
What would be the result
of second effort in this
direction? Has be not treated all re-
monstrants with the utmost con-
tempt, not even referring to them in
his decision, but saying, plainly, that
che had an opinion of his own and
intended to use it, regardless of his
brother Judges, and the renderings
of the Supreme Court" Had this
ruling been strictly the letter of the
law, Judge Hazen could not have
been faulted; but when the law gave
large discretion in this matter, know
ing, as he well does, that there are
but two sides to this questionable
right and the wrong-and with the
past years experience before him;
and further, to consider his partial
and arbitrary granting of license to
the different applicants, there can be
but one conclusion reached by every
honest voter-remember berin3 the
while that women are to confne
themselves strictly to the "cook
book" series-and that is, that Judge
Hazen's decision was most unjust, and
that by his own act he has turned
loose on the law-abiding citizens of
this county, 6end, under guard of
law, whose mission is, for certain
price per draught, to destroy the
soul and body of every inhabitaut of
our county. Let any man in Butler
open feed store, and sell to his GUS
toners feed that would cause the
horses and cattle to go wabbling and
screaming around the streets, and
teams to fall in the cutters, or when
most needed by their owners, to be
of no use for days at time, solely on
account of the food given them, do
you think a case of that kind would
get as far as Judge Hazen's court?
Would not, rather, the public opinion
of Butler put rope around the feed
store and encourage it to leave
town hastily? But admit the case
came before Judge Hazen, would
be give his .fatheriy advice to the
feed merchant as to how the law
took into consideration the cost of his
buildings; the money invested in
stock. and that there was no part of
the law forbidding the sale of bis
nerve destroying food to the cattle of
Butler, at least to horses of mature
age, provided said feed merchant
commenced his sale not too early in
morning, and closed at a seasonable
hour in the evening, so as not to ex-
asperate the temperance people of the
community? And further, that if
older horses addicted to this appetite,
or the very young ones fading them
selves in need of larger quantities TO
satisfy their increasing appetite, they
must go in by way of the back door,
would not the Court, in case of this
kind, find immediate relief-through
the medium of the law-for every
citizen of this county? Yes, you re-
ply; but the cattle of this county are
of so much more value than the hu-
man portion, that they (the cattle)
should be fully protected by the law
and kept in healthy condition. The
Supreme Court has said, that the
pumber and character of the appli-
cants and remonstrances should be
considered. Was this done? The APP
plicants are the men who, by their
traffic, ill the jails and poor houses,
and cause three-fourths of all the
heart-breakings in the country. The
intention of every applicant was and
is to sell to every person who has
the money to buy; and if at times the
customer is too visibly intoxicated for
public scrutiny, some one with lit
tie more equilibrium is sent for the
draught. The majority of all the ap-
plcants have testified that the sale of
beverages were not necessary for the
entertainment of the travelling public,
but for the benefit of the seller. They
are without remorse robbing the
homes of this county of their rightful
affection and protection. In our own
county of Butler they have destroyed
much of its brightest talent, and have
kept out of our legislative halls its
best intellects, and these facts have
not been hidden from the Court. The !
remonstrarss orc largely the sufferers
from-the Courts action. They are |
the law abiding citizens, for whom |
poor houses and prisons are not built;
but, instead, themselves build churches
and schools; teaching their children
to love their country and her free in.
stitutions, and to hate everything |
that would mar or destroy the happi-
ness and life of our republic.